Ventilating-faucet



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES CLEVELAND, OF ASHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

VENTILATING-FAUCET.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 13,424, dated August 14, 1855.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES CLEVELAND, of Asheld, in the county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Self-Ventilating Faucet; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a faucet complete; Fig. 2, a transverse section; Fig. 3, a cross section through s, s, of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a longitudinal elevation, and Fig. 5 a transverse section of a spigot having a large orifice for discharge.

The nature of my invention consists in providing faucets, used to draw liquids from air-tight casks or reservoirs, with an orifice for ventilation, in combination with the siphonic power of the same, substantially as hereinafter described.

A, represents the body of a faucet; B, the spigot; C, the main channel or orifice for the discharge of fluids; D, the orifice for the admission of air.

Figs. 1 and 2 represent the faucet with the spigot set or turned for discharging by self-ventilation, and when inserted in an airtight cask. It will be found that the fluid will issue through the orice (C) and the air enter through (D) until the cask is emptied.

Fig 4 represents a spigot with the orice C cutting about one-third or one-half of the circumference of said spigot; and when so turned that the orifice D does not coincide with the orifice D in the body of the faucet, and thus the ingress of air prevented, the orifice C in the spigot may still coincide with the orilice C in the body, and thus represent and operate as an ordinary faucet; while by the further turning of the spigot, the orifice C is likewise closed and all communication with the fluid cut off. Hence it will be seen that it is used either as a ventilating or an ordinary faucet.

Other forms of faucets are equally appropriate for the application of this invention, one of which is that allowing the passage of the orifice C, entirely through the spigot B and to descend through either a vertical, inclined or curved formation for the `orifice herein described as c of the spigot. Another form is that usual for coffee-urn faucets, in which the spigot is horizontal, and with this improvement the orifice D would be formed through the bail or handle. I do not therefore confine myself to any precise form or position of the several parts herein described but may vary them, as expedient, while I attain the same result by means substantially the same.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The combination of a ventiduct (D) with a faucet constructed in any manner, substantially the same and for the purpose herein set forth and described.

CHARLES CLEVELAND.

Vitnesses:

ARTHUR MAXWELL, GUY H. I-IUBBARD. 

